{"product_id":"the-paradox-of-stillness-art-object-and-performance","title":"The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresenting works from the early 20th century to today, \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and representation as they are experienced in the gallery space. The catalog investigates performance from the perspective of the object rather than the body, examining how performance has reinterpreted traditional artistic mediums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStillness and permanence are qualities typically seen as inherent to painting and sculpture—consider the frozen gestures of a historical tableau or the unyielding solidity of a bronze figure. \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Stillness\u003c\/em\u003e, however, expands the artwork’s quality of stillness to accommodate uncertain temporalities and physical states, investigating works that merge objects with human bodies suspended in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing artists whose works include performative elements but also embrace acts, objects and gestures that refer more to the inert qualities of painting or sculpture than to true staged action, \u003cem\u003eThe Paradox of Stillness\u003c\/em\u003e rethinks the history of performance through its aesthetic investigations into the interplay of the fixed image and the live body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtists include: Marina Abramovic, Merce Cunningham, Giorgio de Chirico, VALIE EXPORT, Gilbert and George, Félix González-Torres, Maria Hassabi, Jannis Kounellis, Kasimir Malevich, Piero Manzoni, Robert Morris, Senga Nengudi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Oskar Schlemmer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Cindy Sherman, Mario Garcia Torres and Franz West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Mary Ceruti, with texts by Manuel Cirauqui, Jadine Collingwood, Hendrik Folkerts, Emma Lavigne, and Catherine Wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of 50 Books | 50 Covers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Vincenzo de Bellis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned by Alex DeArmond\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Walker Art Center, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 288 pages, 600 color and 100 b\u0026amp;w images, 8 × 11 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-1-93-596323-3\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48267080892587,"sku":"xnc1792049756119","price":36.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6630\/4683\/files\/the-paradox-of-stillness-art-object-and-performance_1.jpg?v=1792049763","url":"https:\/\/hempdurablewear.shop\/products\/the-paradox-of-stillness-art-object-and-performance","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}